Premier UK Safe Maker RATNER Large BRASS Antique Safe Advertising  Logo Plaque          

Antique Victorian era heavy cast Brass SAFE Maker's advertising Logo plaque

EXQUISITE CONDITION for an antique Brass logo plaque

RETAINING 99% of its original "BRONZE PATINA"

Antique Brass Safe Maker Advertising logo plaque of the VERY HIGHLY ESTEEMED Ratner Safe Company

Ratner Safe Co of 51 Moorgate Street, London, EC

1889 Company was established by Daniel Rowlinson Ratcliff who had been a partner in the firm of Thomas Milner and Son, safe makers, with his son William Milner Ratcliff and John M. Horner.

1896 Incorporated as a limited company.

1914 Manufacturers of safes, strong rooms and strong room doors, bankers' engineers.

Specialities: Ratner safes, bent at all twelve corners out of the solid plate. This principle of construction was perfected in 1900.

Patent obtained in 1909 for safe doors and rooms constructed to resist oxy-acetyline blowpipe.

All thief resisting safes are fitted with drill-proof doors and interchangeable key lock invented by the company in 1901.

"Thousands of keys will lock this lock but it can be opened only by the one which locked it"

 Employed 200 staff

ONLY the safe maker's logo plaque seen in images 1 - 3 is for sale here

Any other images are "borrowed" from the WWW for illustrative purposes & are not mine to sell

I have several safe plaques listed currently, and many more to list

You are welcome to have your purchases COMBINED to save making NZPO any richer than need be

I do have several other very OLD and LARGE antique keys that I hope to FIND and get listed SOON

Also some old padlocks and many antique Safe logo Plaques and escutcheons